v2.4.0 — previews in the action list, selection by filter, and a built-with badge

This release makes dna check better at showing what it is about to do and at letting you pick: preview any directive or skill before you take it, select or deselect by filter, and keep the companion tool in step with what is actually installed. Packages: Agentic.Check 2.4.0 and InnoWvate.Agentic 2.4.0; InnoWvate.Dna 1.0.0 is unchanged.

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What's new

Preview before you install. In the action list, F3 opens the highlighted directive or skill in a scrollable preview: directives from the content that would be written, skills as gh skill preview renders them at the version an install would use. Esc returns to the list where you left it. Space and b page.

Select and deselect by filter. Type a filter, and ← and → act on the matching rows only; without a filter they still mean deselect all and select all, and the key help says which. Typing a filter switches to the all view, so every match is on screen with its real state and nothing disappears under the cursor while you work. The view stays on all after you clear the filter, until F2.

A built with: dna badge for your README. Whenever a check has something to apply and no README.md between the target folder and the git root links to this repository yet, the list offers a badge that does. It is selected like every other recommendation and can be deselected; a README that already links here is never touched.

Tool updates only when there is one. The companion and the dna shortcut are reported as up to date when nuget.org has nothing newer in their major, instead of being offered as an update on every run.

Skills that gh cannot update are re-installed. A skill installed by hand, or by an older tool, carries no GitHub metadata and is skipped by gh skill update. Such a skill is now offered as "re-install to enable updates", which writes the metadata, and the update summary counts what gh actually updated instead of what was planned.

The companion row follows your selection. Deselect the Prompt Log update and the InnoWvate.Agentic row shows the requirement of what is installed, not the one the update would bring; keeping the companion update then updates along the installed line instead of restoring.

Fewer wrong recommendations.

• Inside a repository with a .gitignore, detection scans the files git lists, so ignored output folders never produce projects or gates.
• cli-e2e-testing is offered for projects that actually interact with a terminal: a packaged dotnet tool, a command-line or terminal UI package, or console input. The stack table lists the projects that set it.
• Project paths in the stack table are relative to the target folder, not to where the command was started.

Specialized subfolders stay lean. A dna check in a subfolder whose directives are all present above it no longer leaves an empty AGENTS.md behind, nor a CLAUDE.md that imports one.

Uno Platform.

• The Uno directive registers the Uno Platform MCP servers at folder scope when they are missing, and the build directives take precedence over conflicting build-and-run steps in skills.
• The uno-csharpmarkup2 skill is gated on C# Markup 2 projects.
• The stable channel keeps the per-topic Uno Studio skills that the latest Studio release ships; the consolidated Studio hubs are available with --preview.

Prompt log. Blocks written by dotnet agentic prompt-log wrap now carry their format version in the start delimiter; older formats remain readable. The Prompt Log directive requires companion 2.4.

Upgrading from 2.3

Run dna check in each repository. The Prompt Log directive update is selected by default and brings the InnoWvate.Agentic 2.4.0 pin with it. Update the companion before reading new prompt logs: blocks written by 2.4.0 are reported as malformed by 2.3.0, while 2.4.0 reads every earlier format. An agent that still runs 2.3.0 with the updated directive is told to run dna check. Agents pick up the updated instructions at their next session start.

Requirements

.NET 10 SDK and the GitHub CLI (gh). A GitHub login is optional.

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.4.0

Commits in this release

• 45e0407 update from running dna check 2.3.0
• b1069b8 Bump Agentic and Agentic.Check to 2.3.1
• 352ace5 Carry the prompt-log format version in the start delimiter
• bd01d2b Keep the host's .NET global tools off the live tests' PATH
• f0fbd6d add uno C# markup gate to uno-csharpmarkup2 skill
• 11d1314 Follow the unoplatform/studio hub consolidation in the skill manifest
• f6e292c Gate cli-e2e-testing on terminal interaction instead of an Exe output type
• 33d8dae Scan the repository's own files when git and a .gitignore are present
• 39c2771 Keep the per-topic Studio skills on stable; the hubs are preview only
• 6f58db5 Skip tool updates when nuget.org already has the installed version
• 6d83247 Give the build directives precedence over conflicting skill steps
• 1855b10 Have the Uno directive register the Uno Platform MCPs when they are missing
• 24dc660 Exclude the consolidated dotnet/skills msbuild skill
• 313f7a7 Treat gh skill notices as notices and re-install skills without GitHub metadata
• c15af7b Preview the highlighted recommendation with F3
• 921a384 Page the preview with space and b instead of advertising Page Up and Page Down
• 23c8ae4 Report gate project paths relative to the target directory
• d700b13 Mark managed directive blocks with a dna line and offer a README badge
• 06df078 Create no empty AGENTS.md and no CLAUDE.md import for a file that will not exist
• 6c794c1 Scope the arrow keys to the typed filter and show every match while filtering
• 020a302 Bump the companion to 2.4.0 with -m 2.4 and Agentic.Check to 2.4.0
• 5bbe6eb Let a kept companion update follow the installed requirement when its consumer is deselected
• 6fad9f9 Drop the dna directive and offer the built-with badge whenever a check has work
• b331d5d Offer the README badge for the nearest README up to the git root
• 2ebc341 Let a kept companion row fall back to the installed companion's own line